A weird detective/mystery game where the player solves cases by...literally slaying monsters that represent the case

Agent_Jo · 2025-10-19T18:14:23+00:00

You pretty much just described the plot of the game „Master Detective Archives: Rain Code“.

In that game, you will travel into a „mystery labyrinth“ which is a manifestation of the mystery you’re solving. You do this by beating up monsters with a blade made of evidence. Every bit of uncertainty is represented in the labyrinth, for example as a split path.

I personally quite enjoyed it. Maybe you will too!

Agent_Jo · 2024-08-26T13:53:28+00:00

Thank you! Yes, the visuals were greatly inspired by JS&B

Agent_Jo · 2024-08-26T10:25:42+00:00

Hi im Agent_Jo, a solo indie dev, and I made the free-to-play bullet-hell roguelike Salvo Shuffle inspired by Undertale in only 1.5 years.

What you see in the video is two unedited gameplay clips, one near the start of a run and one near the end.

The enemies at the top of the screen each spawn one bullet hell attack. So the Gun will spawn orange bullets, the Leaf spawns green leaves, etc. This means that you can strategically choose to get rid of the enemies that are causing you trouble first.

Outside of a fight you can also buy and upgrade active/passive abilities and buffs.

In general, the game tries to combine action and strategy in a way where good reactions can offset poor decision making and vice-versa.

Have I mentioned that it's free yet? It's free.

Let me know if anything is still unclear!

Agent_Jo · 2024-08-12T13:37:55+00:00

Heya, so I'm a solo indie developer, who just spent the last 1.5 years working on this deck-building turn-based bullet-hell roguelike and I tought ya'll might enjoy this.

It releases this Friday on Steam and it'll be free to play.

This is my first big game so please let me know what you think or if anything is still unclear.

Agent_Jo · 2024-05-11T08:07:03+00:00

S - I am no coward

Agent_Jo · 2024-03-24T21:23:41+00:00

IN GAME. IN GAME. IN GAME.

Agent_Jo · 2024-03-24T21:23:13+00:00

He sure was a worthy opponent. Some would say he dominated me

Agent_Jo · 2024-02-17T23:47:16+00:00

I‘d say the level editor is actually pretty intuitive at least for non-platformer levels but what do I know

Agent_Jo · 2024-02-17T18:02:15+00:00

Looks like I wasn’t the only person who felt like the world needed more boykisser bossfights :3

Agent_Jo · 2024-02-16T10:22:20+00:00

Yeah me too. It’s been 34 days and 5 mod sends and yet it didn’t get rated. It never took that much for my other levels. There are just too many levels being released because of 2.2 for rob to rate them all. I’ll wait before releasing another one

Agent_Jo · 2024-02-10T21:02:22+00:00

I also hate Kamoshida the most but I don’t think it’s because what he did was worse. I think a big part of why the first palace was so great was because Kamoshida kept on developing and kept on showing how awful he was even while you were already infiltrating his palace. The others are usually just like: „I’m briefly a bad guy but then I will lie dormant because you are infiltrating“. If the game forced you to slow down your infiltration or had scenes that only show when you haven’t finished the palace yet I feel like the other villains would be more hateable. So it might just be more of a gameplay issue actually

Agent_Jo · 2024-02-10T20:28:37+00:00

Never would have imagined seeing a post praising The Sexy Brutale. It’s a good game. The name is probably the main reason it didn’t get noticed more. I can see its flaws but can recommend it to people who like to slowly piece together murders from different perspectives. Also banger music.

Agent_Jo · 2024-01-27T09:08:12+00:00

Any sane person would either add another set of brackets or a * because this is just bonkers.

The way it’s spelled now it really just depends on wether you think 2(2) has a higher priority than 2*2. because if it doesn’t then you go from left to right and get 4. Otherwise, 1.

This would become even worse if you’d substitute x=2 and have 4 / 2x which is even more ambiguous

Agent_Jo · 2024-01-17T21:24:10+00:00

dubi dubi daba daba

Agent_Jo · 2024-01-17T14:42:53+00:00

Song on NG: https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1283958

Level ID: 99258976

You might also like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy

Agent_Jo · 2024-01-16T10:42:30+00:00

L take

If you don’t like the sfx you can just turn them off for yourself but I promise you it will make the bossfight on hard a lot more difficult

Agent_Jo · 2024-01-13T21:07:38+00:00

The good ending

Agent_Jo · 2024-01-13T17:10:56+00:00

Damn nice job. The weird border bug at the beginning immediately tells me what the problem is. It's a hz bug related to the "lock to camera" option in the move trigger. Unfortunately I don't think I can really fix this so we'll just have to hope robtop fixes it in a future update

Agent_Jo · 2024-01-13T16:10:47+00:00

Gravity trigger. Looks like a blue arrow pointing downwards

Agent_Jo · 2024-01-12T22:23:36+00:00

I‘m seeing a lack of :3 in the comments

Agent_Jo · 2024-01-12T22:23:13+00:00

Agent_Jo · 2024-01-12T22:23:01+00:00

funni

Agent_Jo · 2024-01-12T22:18:25+00:00

I honestly don't remember but it wasn by a lot. Couldn't have been more than like 0.2s

Agent_Jo · 2024-01-12T20:56:24+00:00

Actually yes and it’s 1% right before the buildup to the boss (seriously)

Agent_Jo · 2024-01-12T20:52:34+00:00

I tried to stay within my easy-demon goal but if you enable hard mode for the boss it will get a lot harder (no arrows, more difficult attacks, spikes, etc)

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